Body Mind Spirit DIRECTORY

About

The purpose of the Body Mind Spirit DIRECTORY is to:

Support personal responsibility for well being (body/mind/spirit/earth) by providing a comprehensive list of practitioners, products and expos that are natural, holistic, metaphysical, spiritual or green related.
Create a network in which we share related information, experiences, healing, truth and knowledge.

Awaken each individual's internal wisdom to release more vital energy and improve the quality of their life and those around them on our earth.

Our mission is to empower you to open up to your fullest life potential, allowing you to respond to life in a way for your highest good and make choices that support your chosen personal life path.

Responsibility

You are the caretaker and ultimate healer of your precious vessel which extends through you to the earth and all beings. You are also completely responsible for your choices in selecting a practitioner, service, product or event from this website that nurtures your growth. We do not prescreen or endorse any listings. Responsibility means your ability to respond to life's situations and challenges with more information and more options available to you. We invite you to follow your intuition and listen to your higher self for guidance.

Contact

Please click the "Give Feedback" button at the top of each page to provide your comments. This assures that your comments come right to us. (We purposely do not publish an email address so that we don't miss you as your email could go into our spam folder.)

History

This directory started before 1997 as a hard copy list of like minded providers in Cincinnati, OH. The list grew and grew as people added their names and we began storing it on a bulletin board. From there, it was posted as a website in 1997 and people began submitting their info from outside the area. We made a decision to post them on a links page and then this page got too big so we just kept splitting the directory out into loadable pages as regions of entries grew. (In those days, people use dial up modems and the website was entered in raw html code.) As they say, the rest is history.

Accuracy

This directory is completely maintained by users. Please report any out of date listings by clicking the update button at the top of each page or the Give Feedback button. Listers are completely responsible for maintaining their listing and it's accuracy. Sometimes they move or pass over without letting us know;)

Privacy

We respect your privacy. Our directory is intended for clients to find you so please report any unwanted or unsolicited mail or phone calls to us immediately. By posting your email or phone number on any website, you open yourself to unsolicited mail or phone calls. Email harvesters, via spam bots, roam the internet very easily and collect the email addresses listed on web pages. This is unauthorized use of our directory and must be reported by you for it to stop. We do not sell or rent your email.

$ecurity

Your payments are processed by a secure server which encrypts your information. We never see your payment information so it is never on file or accessed by us. You must pay each year as we do not automatically charge you.

Changes

You may change your listing at any time or report out-of-date listings by clicking the Update button at the top of each page. You are completely responsible for maintaining your own listing.

Tracking

We do not track people who access our site or set cookies.

Copyright

We encourage centers, health food stores, metaphysical stores, etc. to print appropriate sections of the directory and post on their bulletin boards or distribute. Our webiste is maintained in a simple text format for this reason. Our copyright and website address should be included.

Spam

We have an extensive directory. Sending unsolicited email or making unsolicited phone calls to our listers is a violation of our trust, against our policy, grounds for expulsion and/or further action by ourselves and others. It is also against the Anti-Spam act and subject to fines. (Under Bill s.1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th US Congress email letters cannot be considered spam as long as the sender includes contact information & a method of removal. However, our terms of service are more stringent.) Please consider this to avoid unwanted penalties and misunderstandings.

The key to dealing with spam is to report it immediately to a 3rd party. (Remember, they didn't send the spam and are probably just as anti-spam as you are.)
(1) Immediately report the spam to the ISP the spammer used to connect to the internet and include the full header (i.e. abuse@yahoo.com, hotmail, gmail, aol, etc.). Many emails are cloaked or use an alias email address so this may not work.
(2) If the spam is coming from a website email address, report the spam to the web host. If this bounces, then go to Whois, the directory of registered domain names: http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
Type in the spammer's domain (the website address that appears in the spam) together with the extension (.com, .org, .net etc.). The host for that domain will usually be listed as the Technical Contact in the Whois record and there will be an email address for contacting them.
(3) If the spam is selling from an affiliate program, report it to the affiliate program. Send a copy of the email to abuse@affiliateprogramdomain.com Affiliate programs usually have strict spam policies and take immediate action to shut the abuser down.

Abuse

In addition to the above violations, submitting your listing again and again or emailing info again and again is considered abuse of our terms and terminates your listing. We process all our forms and emails by hand. Spamming us or our hotline with multiple forms, emails or requests, delays the response time for everyone and diminishes our ability to serve all.

Violations

If you believe that these standards have been violated, notify us immediately by clicking the "Give Feedback" button at the top of each page so that we may resolve the situation and notify the proper resources.

Appointment Etiquette

You and the professionals listed in the Body Mind Spirit DIRECTORY are expected to uphold the following standards at a minimum.

Communicate your needs and expectations before and during each session.	Communicate what a client can expect during each session. Maintain confidentiality even if the client chooses not to. Ask for a history and current concerns. Be sensitive, listen and respond appropriately.
Relax, inform the practitioner if anything makes you uncomfortable physically or psychologically.	Ask permission to touch a client. Continue to communicate with client to make sure behavior is always appropriate.

Show up on time and stay for the duration of an appointment and leave when session is over.	Specify expected beginning and ending time of each session. Show up on time and stay for the duration of an appointment
Give a minimum 24 hours advance notice to cancel an appointment or be charged for a full session. (Some practitioners may require more notification.)	If unable to make an appointment without notification, give a free appointment.
If late, expect session to still fall within the allotted time slot.	If late, give client a full session.

Be open and willing to receive. Then mentally state with belief that "I am willing to ____________."	Honor your gifts and be open to receive the proper guidance for each individual during a session.
Give feedback to the practitioner at the end of the session if possible or before your next session. Refer the practitioner to friends or family when appropriate.	Ask for feedback at the end of a session or before the next session.
Make payment at time of service. Consider giving your practitioner something extra for a job well done.	Discuss any payment arrangements ahead of time. (Cancellation fee, late charge, overtime cost, house call, return check fee, etc.)